Next Man Up

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes. --
Ross Perot


Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.
Ross Perot



The latest polls confirm what many of us have known since November; that people did not get "what they voted for". More importantly, it is now more obvious that simply voting for the other guy doesn't get the job done either.

Your Wizer believes this opens up an opportunity for someone to demonstrate a difference and earn the country's elective support.

I heard a radio host talk yesterday about Bush's numbers were low, and in the course of the discussion compared them to Obama's sinking ratings. He did miss the point of the low Bush numbers. It had more to do with the ineptness of compassionate conservatism and misguided nation building than matters directly related to the war, but it started the portion of my brain that deals with hindsight.

My point is that people wanted the alternative to Bush, and were horrified to learn ever since then what that meant. Surely there is room for more than two interpretations of the future; especially when these two were so darned similar. The Bush Obama Recession continues. Meanwhile, some rather good systems are left untried. For example: Capitalism, we should try that. Rugged individualism. That would be a good system. Federalism, when properly applied. Constitutionalism would work. Even Anarchy is better than what we have now. What we have now goes by many names, but by my reckoning it is pretty close to National Socialism.

I think if someone were to stand up and defend the constitution, he'd have better than a Ross Perot's chance at being elected.